Cigar-machine.



H. S. MARSH.

CIGAR MAGHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1910.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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H. S. MARSH.

GIGAR MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1910.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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OIGARMAOHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1910.

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H. S. MARSH.

CIGAR MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1910.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY S. MARSH, 0F YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL CIGAR MA- CHINERY COIVIPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern.

Beit known that'I, HARRY S. MARSH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CigarMachines, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in machines for the manufacture of cigars.

One of the objects of the invention is to produce a cigar machine so constructed that the material from which the filler is formed may be fed in a narrow stream suificiently wide to provide material for fillers of a proper diameter, the stream being fed in the direction of the length of the filler to be formed and deposited in a receiving chamber.

A further object of the invention is to produce a cigar machine in which the filler is.

deposited in a receiving chamber and delivered from that chamber into a mold which compresses and forms it, the filler being thereafter delivered directly by the mold to a wrapping mechanism.

A further obj eot of the invention is to produce a cigar machine in which the wrapper is automatically cut, the cutting devices being of such a character that the liability of cutting or crushing the hand of the operator who lays the leaf from which the wrapper is cut on the die, is avoided.

A further object of the invention is to produce a cigar machine in which the wrapper is presented tothe wrapping mechanism by a suction carrier on the underside of which the wrapper is held, the carrier being so mounted that it can be turned to expose its operating face, thus enabling a defective wrapper to be patched. I

A further object of the invention is to provide a cigar machine in which the leaf is presented to the wrapping mechanism by a carrier which is given the proper movements to properly present the wrapper to the bunch in the wrapping mechanism, the movements of the carrier being controlled by a camplate which moves with the carrier for part of its movement and then is held stationary during the rest of the movement.

A further object of the invention is to produce a cigar machine in which the wrapper is transferred from the support to the wrap- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 21, 1910.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

Serial No. 573,013.

ping mechanism by a carrier and is pasted during its movement from the support to the wrapping mechanism without interrupting the movement of the carrier.

A further object of the invention is to produce an improved pasting mechanism for cigar machines.

With these and other objects not specifically referred to in view, the invention consists in certain constructions, and in certain parts, improvements and combinations as will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically pointed out.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved cigar machine. Fig. 2 is a detail view of a certain stop mechanism which may be employed in connection with the machine illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the machine shown in Fig. 1 with certain parts removed. Fig. l is a section on a large scale of a pasting mechanism which may be 7 I employed. Fig. 5 is a detail view on an enlarged scale. Fig. 6 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, of certain features of construction illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the manner in which the filler is delivered to the wrapping mechanism. Fig. 8 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, of the suction wrapper carrier employed. Fig. 9 is a section on the line 99 of Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a detail view, partly in section, of the construction for supporting and operating the wrapper carrier shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 11 and 12 are detail views.

While, in machines embodying the invention, the construction by which the tobacco is fed may vary, in the particular mechanism illustrated in the drawings, the filler tobacco is laid by hand on a feeding belt, as 1, supported on rotating pulleys 2, the tobacco being laid on the belt lengthwise of the leaves or in the direction of the length of the filler to be formed, and is fed forward by the movement of this belt and by a coferred to over a plate, as 5, this plate being carried on arms 6 pivoted at 7 one of these arms having an extension provided with a roller, as 8, working in a cam slot in a bracket 9. The plate 5 has a diagonally ar ranged edge 10 on its forward end and this plate directly overlies a cutting die, 11, located at one end of a receiving chamber 12, the bottom of this chamber being formed by a plate 13 bolted to the bed of the machine. In the machine shown, one side of this receiving chamber is formed by a plunger 14 having a face which is curved in both directions to correspond to the shape of the bunch to be formed, the opposite side of the chamher being formed by a mold consisting of a receiving block 15 and a plunger 16, the face of this plunger being also shaped to conform to the shape of the bunch to be made.

As the tobacco is fed in the direct-ion of the length of the bunch to be formed, the unsupported leaves may have a tendency, as they pass over the edge 10 of the plate 5, to drop down into the chamber, solthat the tobacco will pile up at the entrance end of the chamber, and not be properly distributed therein. Devices which vary in construction may be employed to prevent this. As shown, there is provided a plate, as 17, bolted to a slide 18, this slide and plate working between guides 19 secured to the bed of the machine. The slid-e 18 is operated by a link 20 connected to the slide and to a bent lever 21 (see Fig. l) pivoted at 22 to the machine frame and operated by a link 23 connected to a yoke 24 operated from a cam on the main-shaft 25 of the machine. The plate 17 has a diagonal or beveled end, and when the advancing filler reaches the forward end of the plate 5 the plate 17 has been advanced until its beveled end is closely adjacent. to the diagonal edge 10 of the plate 5. As the forward end of the filler passes over the plate 17, the plate is: moved back supporting the end of the advancing filler.

The cutting mechanism which, when a sufficient amount of tobacco to form a filler has been fed, operates to out off the tobacco, may be varied in construction. As shown, there is provided a knife 26 carried on a slide 27 which carries the bracket 9 before referred to, this knife 26 cooperating with the die 11. The die has a diagonally arranged edge and the knife is diagonally arranged with respect to the advancing filler stream, so that the filler is cut diagonally across the advancing stream. This method of cutting insures the existence of a comparatively small amount of tobacco at the two ends of the filler, thus enabling a cigar to be made which is pointed at both ends and comparatively large in the center, without unduly compressing the filler at the ends on a rod 31 extending across under the bed they will be obvious to those skilled in the of the cigar. The slide 27 may be operated from a rock-arm 28 connected by alink 29 to the slide. This rock-arm is operated by alink 30 connected to a rock-arm mounted of the machine, the rock-arm being operated from a cam in a disk 32 mounted on the shaft These operating connections are of usual form and are not fully shown, as

art.

By the time the-knife has severed the length of filler tobacco from the advancing stream, the plate 17 has retreated so as to allow the filler length to drop into the receiving chamber 12. In the particular machine shown, before the knife retreats, a plunger 33 mounted on a slide 34,said plunger having a curved under face shaped generally to correspond with the outline of the cigar to be formed,-descends, forcing the fillertobacco down into the chamber 12. The slide 34 may be operated from a rockarm 35 and a link 36, the connections being similar to those operating the slide 27.

After the plunger 33 has operated to force he tobacco into the chamber, and while it is still in its depressed position, the slide or plunger 14 is advanced, pushing the charge of tobacco out of the receiving chamber into the mold 15, strongly compressing the filler tobacco into bunch form, that is, into the shape which the completed cigar is to have. The operating connections for the plunger 14 included, in the particular machine illus trated, a slide 37 connected by a link 38 to one of the arms 39 of a bell-crank 394 the other arm, 40, of this bell-crank being operated by a rod 41 similar to the rods 30 and 36 and operating in the same manner. After this compressing operation is completed, the plunger 14 is retracted and at the same time the slides 27 and 34 move up. As the slide 27 moves up the cam slot in the bracket 9 operates the arm 6 and moves the plate 5 forward slightly across the edge of the die, so as to clean any particles of tobacco or gum which may have adhered to the edge of the die.

The charge of tobaccois next transferred 1-15 to the wrapping mechanism which is diagrammatically indicated by a group of rolls 42, this type of wrapping mechanism being well known in the art. While the connections by which the transfer of the shaped 12o bunch to the wrapping mechanism may be varied, in the particular machine shown the mold block 15 and the plunger 16 are mounted in a swinging frame 43 pivoted on a center 44. This frame has connected to it an 125 arm 45 and to this arm is connected a link 46 operated from a cam (not shown), the location and arrangement of which will be well understood by those skilled in the art. Through the connections described the mold 13o is swung from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 6 to the position shown in dotted lines, after which the plunger 16 is given a movement to eject the bunch from the mold into the wrapping rolls. This movement of the plunger 16 is effected by a link A7 and a lever 48 operated by a rod 4-9 similar to the rods before described, the link 47 being connected to the plunger 16 by ears on the plunger and by a pivot pin marked 49. By the mechanism described the transfer of the shaped tobacco'is effected without much loss of the shape given it by the compressing plungers.

In the machine selected to illustrate the invention, the wrapper is automatically cut from the tobacco leaf and transferred and then automatically fed to the wrapping mechanism. As illustrated, the wrapper leaf is laid on the top of a suction box 50 provided with a knife 51, the suction box being provided with a series of holes extending around on both sides of the knife soas to strongly hold the leaf against the knife. After the operator has spread the leaf of tobacco 011 the top of the box and after the suction has acted to hold it down, an arm, as 53, provided with two rollers 54, 55, swings over the knife, thus cutting out the wrapper. This arm 53 is mounted on a vertical shaft 56 provided with a segment 57 meshing with a segment 58 formed on one of the arms 59 of a bell-crank lever 59, 60. In the best constructions embodying the inven tion, the cutting mechanism will be so constructed that should the operator fail to remove his hands from the top of the suction box before the cutting operation begins, he will not be injured. While the means by which this is effected may be varied, in the particular machine shown, the segment 57 is connected to the shaft 56 by a spring 61 (see Fig. 1) having one-end connected to the segment and the other end connected to a collar 62 fast on the shaft 56. The hub of the segment is provided with a small slot 63 and the shaft has a pin 6 which works in this slot. Should the operator, therefore, fail to remove his hand from the top of the suction box before the arm 58 swings over it, the spring will yield, thus permitting the segment to continue its movement, but the shaft 56 and the arm 58 stop, so that the hand of the operator is not cut or crushed.

After the leaf of tobacco has been laid on the suction box 50 and the rollers 54, have passed over the knife, the wrapper thus formed is delivered to a carrier and transferred to the wrapping mechanism. The particular construction of this carrier may vary, but, as shown, it is a suction carrier. In the best constructions embodying the invention, the carrier will be so constructed as to enable a torn or imperfect wrapper to be patched while it is on the carrier and before it is applied to the filler. Whilethe construction of thecarrier by which this is effected may be varied within wide limits, as shown, it comprises a chambered casting 65 having a perforated bottom 66. The top of this casting is closed by a plate 67 on which are cast curved bosses68 which are chambered out and communicate with the interior I of the chambered casting 65. These bosses are provided with shoulders 69 which take over the ends of .a tubular casting 70 hav-, ing a rearwardly xtending pipe 70 formed integrally therewith which is connected by a flexible pipe 71 with the interior of a hollow arm 7 2 (the connection including a link 7 2), by which the carrier is swung from the wrapper cutting bed over to the wrapping mechanism and back again. This hollow arm is carried by a hollow shaft 73 which communicates with any suitable suction producing mechanism, such as a blower or fan. The casting 65 may, therefore, be turned around the tubular casting 70 from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 9 to the position shown in dotted lines in that figure. It will be understood that'when the casting 65 is in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 9 the under side, which is carrying the wrapper, will be exposed to the view of and will be readily accessible by the operator. The operator can, therefore, place a small piece of tobacco leaf over any imperfect part of the wrapper, thus patching it, the patch being held in position by the suction, or, if desired, paste may be applied to the patch. It will be understood that the side of the wrapper to which the patch is applied will come next to the filler when the wrapper is applied, so that there is no danger of its being misplaced after the wrapper is wound upon the filler.

If desired, a lock may be employed to prevent accidental displacement of the casing 65 with respect to the tubular casting 70. As illustrated, the casting is formed by a spring bolt 74. passing through an opening in a boss 75 formed on one of the bosses 68, the shoulder 69 of this boss being provided with a perforation through which the bolt passes into a corresponding perforation in an ear 76 formed on the tubular casting. The lock is operated by a bellcrank 77.

The driving mechanism employed may be widely varied in construction, but in the machines embodying the invention in its best form, the mechanism will be of such a char. acter as to automatically stop the machine with the parts in such position that the wrapper carrier may be readily manipulated to enable the patching operation, before referred to, to be conveniently effectedmAs shown,;the several parts of the machine are operated from the shaft 25 before referred to, this shaft being provided with a worm gear 7 8 driven by a worm 79 on a countershaft 80 driven by a belt pulley 81 secured to or released from the shaft 80 by means of a clutch mechanism 82 of ordinary type. This clutch mechanism is controlled by a slide-rod 83 which is impelled by a spring Set in such direction as to clutch the pulley to the shaft. This slide rod carries a hub 85 free to turn on the rod but prevented from lengthwise movement with respect thereto by collars 86. This hub has a projecting finger 87- and is also provided wit-h an operating arm 88 connected by a link 89 to a treadle 90. The hub is normally held by a spring 92 in such position that the finger 87 is forced inward toward the face of the worm wheel 78. This wheel carries a pin 98 which, when the finger is in its normal position, that is, held in toward the face of the wheel, will strike it as the wheel rotates, thus shifting the rod 88 against the stress of spring 84: and releasing the clutch. By means of the treadle 90, however, the operator can lock the hub against the stress of the spring 92, thus holding the finger 87 out from the wheel, so that the pin may pass it.

In the operation of the machine, the operator will keep his foot on the treadle, thus allowing the machine to run continuously. When, however, a torn or broken leaf is laid on the die, so that the operator knows that it will be necessary to patch the wrapper cut therefrom, he removes his foot from the treadle and this causes the machine to be stopped in such a position of the parts that the swinging arm 72 has carried the casting 05 away from the top of the suction box, thus permitting the casting which forms the wrapper carrier to be turned up for the patching operation, as before described.

It is customary in wrapping cigar-bunches to apply paste to the wrappers. While the details of construction of and the location of the pasting apparatus may vary, in the particular machine illustrated, the pasting apparatus is interposed in the path of the wrapper carrier or casting 65, so that the pasting is accomplished without unnecessary movement of or without stopping the wrapper carrier. The pasting apparatus illustrated comprises a receptacle 94 in which is located two drums 95, 96, the drum 95 being mounted on a shaft 97 journaled in the walls of the receptacle and the drum 96 being journaled on a shaft 98 mounted in pivoted arms 99. The drum 95 is provided with a series of sprockets 100 around which run sprocket chains 101, these chains passing loosely around the drum 96. In order to keep the chains taut, the arms 99' are pulled down by means of springs 102. The drum 95 is revolved by suitable gearing and the chains carry the paste up from the receptacle and over the top of the drum 95. To transfer the paste from the chains to the 'wrapper on the underside of the carrier 65,

there is employed a brush 103 mounted on a shaft 104 supported in arms 105 mounted on a rock-shaft 106. This rock-shaft is provided with an operating arm 107 to which is connected a link 108 forming a part of a suitable cam operated mechanism. As the carrier with the wrapper on its under side is passing over the top of the receptacle 9 1, the brush is raised and applies paste to the underside of the wrapper. The brush may be driven, as indicated, by the same gearing which drives the drum 95.

The particular machine selected to illustrate the invention is designed to make that class of cigars known to the trade as stogies which are a long cigar of comparatively small diameter and which are made by applying the wrapper direct to the filler without any intervening binder, and in which paste is ordinarily applied over a considerable area of the wrapper instead of at sired area of the wrapper.

It has been heretofore stated that the wrapper carrier is swung from the wrapper cutting bed over to the wrapping mechanism by the hollow arm 72, though it is to be understood that the wrapper may be me I sented to the wrapping mechanlsm in other I ways.

In addition to the swinging movement, however it is effected, imparted to the wrapper carrier, the wrapper carrier also has what may be referred to as an angular movement. As a cigar is not cylindrical but tapers toward one or both ends from the center, it is desirable, in order that the wrapper may lie smoothly thereon, that the wrap per carrier be caused to assume constantly changing angular positions with respect to the cigar bunch as the bunch is rotated, in order to wind the wrapper thereon. This constantly changing angular movement may be effected in various ways, but in machines embodying the invention in its best form it will be produced by a suitable mechanism moving with the carrier. In the particular machine shown, a camplate 109 is provided having two cam slots 110, 111. The top of the carrier is provided with studs 112 carrying rollers 113 working in the cam-slots 110, 111. Above these rollers are washers 11 1, and there is also provided a bar 115 which overlies the washers, the bar being held down on the washers by nuts 116 on the studs 11:2. The construction is such that the plate 109 supports the wrapper carrier, the washers preventing the rollers from slipping down through the cam slots. The plate 109 is carried by two hubs 117, 118 connected by a bar 119, this structure being loosely mount ed on the shaft 73. The shaft 73 is provided with a segment 120 in mesh with teeth on an operating segment 121. The plate 109 has connected to its underside a spring 122 also connected to the arm 72. As the arm 72 moves it will, through the connecting sprin cause the plate 109 to move with it, and during this connected movement of the arm and the plate the only movement which the wrapper carrier receives is a swinging moveient derived from the arm 72. When, however, the arm in its movement brings the wrapper carrier into a position over the wrapping mechanism, the cam-plate is stopped from further movement by a shoulder 123 on the plate contacting with the underside of the frame, as clearly shown in Fig. 8. As the arm 72 continues its movement, the rolls 113 begin to travel in thecam slots 110, 111,the plate being, of course, at this time stationary-so that the carrier is given, in addition to the movement produced by the arm, a movement produced by the cam, these movements combining in such a way that they produce a resulting movement of the carrier which is the proper movement to deliver the wrapper, so that it will be smoothly wound about the revolving cigar bunch or filler in the wrapping mechanism. The movement referred to is not, broadly speaking, novel, but it has been heretofore produced by a stationary cam plate.

By causing the camplate to move with the wrapper carrier during a considerable portion of 1ts movement, wear on the camplate is avoided, a smaller cam-plate may;

be employed, and the operating connect-ions by which the movement which the cam plate produces on the carrier is effected, are

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As has been indicated, changes and variations may be made in the construction by which the invention claimed is carried into effect. The invention claimed, therefore, is not to be confined to the particularconstruction herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

What is claimed is 1. A cigar machine including in combination a filler receiving chamber, means for feeding the filler tobacco over the chamber in the direction of the length of the filler to be formed, means for supporting the forward end of the filler tobacco as it is advanced, and filler severing devices.

2. A cigar machine including in combination a filler receiving chamber, means for feeding the filler tobacco over the chamber in the direction of the length of the filler to be formed, a plate for receiving the forward end of the filler, means for moving the plate with the filler as the filler advances so as to sustain the same, and filler severing devices.

3. A cigar machine including in combination a filler receiving chamber, a filler shaping mold in open communication with the chamber, a transferring and compressing plunger which transfers the filler from the chamber'to the mold and compresses it therein, a wrapping mechanism, and means for causing the mold to deliver the formed and compressed filler directly to the wrapping mechanism.

A. A cigar machine including in combination a filler receiving chamber, a filler shaping mold in open communication with the chamber, a transferring and compressing plunger which transfers the filler from the chamber to the mold and compresses it therein, a wrapping mechanism, an ejecting plunger connected with the mold, means for moving the mold into delivery position directly over the wrapping mechanism, and means for operating the ejectin plunger.

5. A cigar machine including in combination a filler receiving chamber, a filler shaping and compressing mold located at one side of the chamber, a transferring and compressing plunger, means for moving the plunger across the chamber to transfer the filler to the mold and compress it therein, an ejecting plunger connected with the mold, wrapping mechanism, means for moving the mold from its receiving position to a position directly over the wrapping mechanism, and

means for operating the ejecting plunger to tion a cutting die, a cooperating cutting member, means for moving the member across the die, and means for permitting the movement of the cooperating cutting member to be temporarily arrested if it meets an obstruction said meansacting to restore said member to its normal position upon the removal of said obstruct-ion.

7. A cigar machine including in combination a cutting die, a cooperating cutting member, means for movingthemember across the die, and a yielding connection between the cutting member and its operating means for permitting the movement of the cooperat-ing cutting member to be temporarily arrested if it meets an obstruction said yielding connection acting to restore said member to its normal position upon the removal of said obstruction.

8. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a carrier constructed to hold the wrapper on its under surface and to deliver the wrapper to the wrapping mechanism while so held, operating means for the carrier, and connections between the carrier and the operating means of such a character that the carrier may be moved with respect thereto to expose the carrying surface of the carrier, thus enabling torn or imperfect wrappers to be patched.

9. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a suction carrier upon the under surface of which the wrapper is held and adapted to deliver the wrapper to the wrapping mechanism while so held, operating means for the carrier, and connections between the carrier and operating means of such a character that the carrier may move with respect thereto to expose the carrying surface of the carrier, thus enabling torn or imperfect wrappers to be patched.

10. A cigar machine including in combination a Wrapping mechanism, a suction car rier upon the under surface of which the wrapper is held and adapted to deliver the wrapper to the wrapping mechanism while so held, operating means for the carrier, and pivotal connections between the carrier and operating means, said connections being arranged to permit the carrier to be turned to bring its under surface out of its normal place of movement.

11. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a carrier on the under surface of which the wrapper is held, operating means for the carrier, connections between the carrier and its operating means enabling the carrier to be turned with respect to its operating means to expose the carrying surface, and means for automatically stopping the carrier in position to enable ready access to be had to the carrying surface.

12. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a suction wrapper carrier, a wrapper cutting die from which the carrier receives the wrapper, op erating mechanism for the carrier, connections between the carrier and its operating mechanism of such a character that the carrier may be moved to expose its carrying surface, and means for automatically stopping the movement of the carrier between the die and the wrapping mechanism.

13. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a suction wrapper carrier on the under surface of which the wrapper is held, operating means for the carrier, pivotal connections between the carrier and its operating means, and means for automatically stopping the carrier in position to enable ready access to be had thereto.

14. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a suction wrapper carrier, a wrapper cutting die from which the carrier receives the wrapper and holds it on its under surface, operating means for the carrier, pivotal connections between the carrier and its operating means, and means for automatically stopping the movement of the carrier between the die and the wrapping mechanism.

15. A cigar machine including in combination a wrapping mechanism, a wrapper carrier, a swinging arm on which the carrier is mounted, a cam plate mounted on the arm for controlling the movement of and movable with the arm, and a stop for checking the movement of the cam-plate as the wrapper is being delivered.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY S. MAR-SH. Witnesses:

A. WHITE, S. E. BROWN.

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